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Visible Mending

Introduction:

Visible mending is a decorative way to fix up an item. Instead of trying to make your mend as invisible as possible, the idea is to make it part of the garment's design.

Visual mending is not a single technique: it's more of a mindset. If you've got an item you love, it deserves to be mended, and if you're going to put that love into stitches, why not show them off?

That being said, there are some specific techniques that are popular with visible menders. Let's take a look!

Sashiko:

Sashiko is a type of traditional Japanese embroidery that is used to both decorate and reinforce fabric. In visible mending, sashiko is often used to cover up holes with patches or to reinforce thinning fabric. This technique uses a variation on the running stitch.

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Some resources on sashiko:

SashiCo on YouTube: sashiko livestreams and information on the cultural aspect of sashiko.

Written tutorial by Upcycle Stitches.

Free sashiko templates by TheSpruceCrafts.

Fixing jeans with sashiko by Soluna Collective.

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Embroidery:

Regular embroidery is also a popular technique to accentuate your mends. Check out my embroidery 101 post to learn how to get started. You can embroider patches, or use embroidery to hide or accentuate any stitches you've made to fix holes. Embroidery's also a great way to cover up stains.

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Patches:

There are many ways to add patches to a garment. My tutorial on patches is a good place to start if you want to make custom-shaped patches to sew on top of your fabric. You can also sew your patch on the inside of your garment and have it peek out from beneath the hole you're trying to fix. Fun ideas for this are lace or superheroes.

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Darning:

Darning is a technique used to repair holes in fabric by using running stitches to weave extra fabric over the hole as to fill it up again. While traditionally darning is done in an invisible way by using the same colour of thread as your fabric, you can also use contrasting colours to accentuate your fix. Check out this written tutorial on darning by TheSpruceCrafts.

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Conclusion:

Visible mending is a creative way to fix up your clothes and give them some personality at the same time.

You should be proud of the fact that you took the time and learned the necessary skills needed to mend your clothes! Show off what you did!

A fun side effect of wearing these obvious mends is that people will notice them. They'll remember your fixes the next time they're faced with a hole in their wardrobe, and it will make them more likely to try it for themselves.

These are just a few ways to visibly mend your garments. Want more inspiration? Check out Pinterest or r/Visiblemending on Reddit.

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I say that but I don't have the file with the names of the different characters lmaooo I'm so stupid

Time to try writing the closet on fire ai guess

I don’t proofread my work because in between I might change my mind and not post it, but apparently some people love what I do.

So I yeet it on AO3 and might will look at it much later to fix some stuff

You ever read a fic and you're like. You just Know this hasn't been proofread

Fic writers, put in the tags what the difference in hits is between your most and least viewed fics. Mine is 7,720 (7,779-59).

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Words: 2030

Chapter: 1/6

Words: 996

Language: English

Fandom: NSR, No Straight Roads

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warning Apply

Relationships: NeonNova, DJ Subatomic Supernova/Neon J.

Characters: DJ Subatomic Supernova, Neon J. (No Straight Roads), Green | Eloni (No Straight Roads), Blue | Purl-Hew (No Straight Roads), the rest of the kids but they're not mentioned by name

Me: so the ending leaves you in the unknown, that will most likely piss you off and you'll want the rest (that of course doesn't exist)

Y'all : perfect ending! I love it!

Oh god

So I missed a place I was supposed to do on the fourth fucking row on ten

But fixing it would means that I have to undo like.... At least five pieces and then redo almost the entirety of the freaking thing........

So I have thrown myself into a huge project, which is to make a plaid for my mother

This is the finished plaid from the creator and all the squares, half squares and quarter squares I have to do.

I've done all that so far, which corresponds to the four corners, all the big borders, half of the small borders and one baby square.

I'm doing it using yarn my mother wanted, which is a mix of cotton and merinos wool. There's 10 colours total but I'm not using the same as what is shown in the pattern.

colours? colours :) one of my friends generally wanted help on colours and i went. a little bit overboard and decided to just fully format it into a pseudo-tutorial

if it’s not clear what the first image is, basically what you do is merge all your colour layers multiple times to be shadowing and highlight layers and mess with their hue/luminosty/saturation levels, much like on the lineart colouring section. again, making it more saturated and more purple/blue for shadows and lighter for highlights.

don’t take it as gospel or anything it’s honestly just what i do to make it easier for myself due to having Joint Issues but i think it might just help people Without pain possibly do art a bit faster and/or experience less frustration? maybe??? ps. im aware this information probably won’t be new for quite a few people but there’s always going to be new people who didn’t know, so i don’t see the harm in posting this

I was just wondering something.

Has anyone else stumbled onto problems with artfol? I’m not talking about the lag here but the ability to post art.

For some reason, I’m unable to post anything but text (and yes, I have an artist account). When I go to post artwork through the + button at the bottom or the lil image at the top, it leads me to the gallery/file reader but when I chose one pic it brings me back to the app without doing anything.

I made my account four days ago and contacted in DM the official account two/three days ago but they still haven’t answered me and I found only two or three other people having issues like that.

So yeah if anyone knows why lmao it would be great.